# explico
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əksˈpli.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əksˈpli.ko]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eksˈpli.ko]

### Verb

explico
* first-person singular present indicative of explicar

## Galician
### Verb

explico
* first-person singular present indicative of explicar

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* explicit (Medieval Latin)

### Etymology

From ex- +‎ plicō (“I fold”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈek.spli.koː/, [ˈɛks̠plʲɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈek.spli.ko/, [ˈɛkspliko]

### Verb

explicō (present infinitive explicāre, perfect active explicāvī or explicuī, supine explicātum or explicitum); first conjugation
* to unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo
    Synonyms: absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
    Antonyms: ligō, colligō, illigō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, dēligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō
* to spread out, stretch out, extend, display, deploy
    Synonyms: extendō, distendō, porrigō, prōferō, pandō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō
* to disentangle, solve, settle, arrange, regulate, adjust
* (of speech) to develop, set forth, exhibit
* to explain
    Synonym: expōnō

#### Derived terms

* explicābilis
* explicāns
* explicanter
* explicātē
* explicātiō
* explicātor
* explicātrīx
* explicātus
* explicitus

#### Related terms

* applicō
* circumplicō
* complicō
* displicō
* implicō
* interplicō
* plicō
* replicō

#### Descendants

All inherited descendants reflect a stressed ĭ: */sˈplɪ.ko/.
* Corsican: spiegà
* French: éployer
* Italian: spiegare
** → Friulian: spiegâ
** → Sicilian: spiecari, spigari
** → Maltese: spjega
* Old Catalan: esplegar
* Old Occitan: esplegar
* Romansch: splajer
* Sicilian: schicari, spricari
* Venetan: spiegar
* → Albanian: shpjegoj
* → Friulian: esplicâ
* → Galician: explicar
* → German: explizieren
* → Catalan: explicar
* → Danish: explicere
* → Dutch: expliceren
** → Afrikaans: ekspliseer
* → English: explicate
* → Esperanto: ekspliki
* → French: expliquer
** → Hausa: eksplike
* → Luxembourgish: explizéieren
* → Norman: explyitchi (Jersey)
* → Norwegian:
** Norwegian Bokmål: explicere
** Norwegian Nynorsk: explicere
* → Occitan: explicar
* → Portuguese: explicar
* → Romanian: explica
* → Spanish: explicar
* → Swedish: explicera

### References

* “explico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “explico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* explico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare) (ambiguous) to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1) (ambiguous) to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire (ambiguous) to give a full, detailed account of a thing: pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequi aliquid (ambiguous) to explain a matter briefly, in a few words (not paucis verbis): breviter, paucis explicare aliquid (ambiguous) to open a book: volumen explicare (ambiguous) to extend the line of battle, deploy the battalions: aciem explicare or dilatare
* explico in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “explicare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 310

## Portuguese
### Verb

explico
* first-person singular present indicative of explicar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡsˈpliko/ [eɣ̞sˈpli.ko]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: ex‧pli‧co

### Verb

explico
* first-person singular present indicative of explicar